bird on hai

[sooZen]

small shell
~in the birdbath
Grackle gift!


Commentary:

Now we live in the desert...where did that come from??? Hah!

The grackles tend to leave stones, beer tabs and other, sundry beautiful and not so beautiful items in the bird bath but a seashell? He must of just come in from the coast.

[Artguy]

birds at the feeder
flocking fluttering wings flapping
winter munchies yum

[stilltrucking]

squirrels hibernate
the cats look bored
in the dead winter

cats come and go
my cat loving neighbor
I try not to hate

a pile of dead cats
at the animal shelter
she calls that love

I beg her and beg her to neuter her cats. God all mighty. what a shame

if i had to explain it I know it wasn't haiku, but it is all the life I see out doors

artguy that step in the grave ku was helpful to me, thank you

[jimboloco]

squirrelz catz n boidz
backyard reveriez
light cool rain

[sooZen]

long horned owl
telephone wire cafe
dove dinner!


Commentary: On Christmas eve, a long horned owl visited the city from the cliffs of the Franklin mountains. My house, a Wildlife Federation Backyard Habitat (officially) is a playground, diner and all around fun place for the birds. Cec thought a cat had some how climbed the telephone pole and perched there, but NO, it was a very large owl. ( I have never seen a large owl in Phar Lepht before. The little borrowing owls, yes.)

To make a long story about a little haiku short...he swooped from his perch, after a long wait and grabbed a dove from the aleppo outside my windows. IT was so sudden, so fast, so silent and deadly. The dove actually screamed as it was caught.

Last night, he returned to my house for another treat...is that not coolie smoolie? Hah!

Those that know me, know I love the predators as much as the prey...

[Artguy]

My wife works in downtown Toronto a very busy full of people and cars place...during lunch hour with hundreds of people milling about a peregrine falcon swooped down and took a pidgeon (rock dove ) right off of the side walk................after all he (she) had to have lunch too...

[sooZen]

Wow! A Peregrine in downtown Toronto!!! How cool is that? I guess you know about Pale Male and Lola, the redtail hawks of Central Park. They nest in a toney high-rise in Manhattan.

red-tail in love
Manhattan high
Central Park low go


Photo by Lincoln Karim, long time protector and observer of Pale Male and all the Central Park deniZens.

[Artguy]

Birds of prey up above
Urban prey unsuspecting below
Screeching between towers

[stilltrucking]

never mind it, deleted digression here

tearing my hair out trying to find a abehill haiku about leafy shadows on the sidewalk. wanted to post it to the jam


cro-magnon killer
predator par excellent
going to be lonely

can't get the last line the way I want it

what a lonely world our children will inherit, extinction is part of nature, and human nature is part of nature so I suppose everything is peachy

[jimboloco]

caw and acreech
listen to this song
along the broken road

[stilltrucking]

sea birds caw me home

to the safety of a beach

oceanic feeling

[sooZen]

cro-magnon killer
predator par excellent
going to be lonely

k, ST...the problem I see with that last line is that it is in the FUTURE and haiku is NOW now. Hah. If you change that line to just "lonely" it would work well i think... & I think you meant "excellence" right?

An old Zen saying: "Everything is perfect, just as it is..." No need to fret... There is no future...only a long line of NOW...

Do what you can when you can and for whom you can, can, can.

[sooZen]

now this one...

sea birds caw me home

to the safety of a beach

oceanic feeling

if I may? (and let me know if you wish not to have your ku dissected, please...for some are fragile wishes...)

leave the "feeling" out of it...that is implied or should be. "Oceanic " (great word, BTW) says it all. You could also take yourself out of it by removing the "me" but that might not be your intent and intent is important, yes? My take or translation would be:

sea birds visit
beach vision
oceanic

I have no bodies to discuss ku with so I enjoy the repartee. Thanks!

SooZen

visualize PEACE one and all.

[sooZen]

Artguy...I like what you are saying here. Can I play with your haiku? Hah!

Birds of prey up above
Urban prey unsuspecting below
Screeching between towers

condensed SooZen version of a beautiful picture you made:

birds of prey above
urban prey below
Screeching! (or perhaps just Screech!)

Of course, yours is just fine and dandy as it is...I just like distillation in all forms. You did give a better vision of just 'how' urban tho...

Jimbo...kewl, except for "acreech" Hah!

BTW...do seagulls or hawks caw? I am not sure... I think that is Japanese to them. Heh. (please note sillyness...)

SooZ

[stilltrucking]

thanks SooZen must welcome comments, there was a banner the other day of a beach and the ocean. It was almost as if I had an auditory hallucination. I could hear the birds. The coast is 150 miles away. Sometimes I can catch the smell of it when the wind is coming off the gulf. Sea longing. I got it bad. Oceanic feeling is from Romain Rolland a freind of Freud and one of San Antonio' Rese's favorite authors. It is how he descrebes God. An oceanic feeling. A beach is a church to me.

Pleaes don't even ask no more your comments are so very welcome.

Thinking about an abehill haiku

about sunshine and leafy shadows on a sidewalk, the first haiku that I ever "got" went off in my brain like flash
all I could think of was those human shadows burnt onto a wall in Hiroshima. weird.

sleep in my eyes
furnace roaring
semiconsious

I liked the artman haiku a lot
I suppose I sound like a broken record but
the middle line was nine sylables I think the whole thing was 21 sylables. I like your condesned version too.

pilgrim on road
serpent on rock
the sun on my face

feeding on warmth,
monkey brains encapsulate
Phylogeny

phylogeny I need to find a better way of saying that

What is Phylogeny?
The organisms that are alive today are but the leaves of this giant tree, and if we could trace their history back down the branches of the Tree of Life, we would encounter their ancestors, which lived thousands or millions or hundreds of millions of years ago (Figure 2). ).

http://tolweb.org/tree/learn/concepts/w ... ogeny.html


they say we still have a reptile brain burried down deep.